Intervention and engagement strategies need to meet the needs of the diverse populations within their communities and center culture as a critical component of meaningful intervention. Addressing the harms of IPV requires genuine collaboration between system and community-based actors to develop strategies resulting in safer and healthier intimate partner, family, peer, and community relationships. To do so, these intervention and engagement strategies should center on the communities they serve and engage their members as experts, develop collaborative wraparound supports, reflect the diversity and intersectionality of participants, practice cultural reverence and humility, and when possible, develop community accountability processes outside formal systems.
Additional Resources
- [2024 Conference Workshop] Culturally Responsive Approaches to Abusive Partner Intervention / Engaging Refugees and New Americans
- “Returning Men to Honor” – A Guidebook for Developing Intervention and Education Programs for Men Who Batter in Native Communities (Nevilles-Sorell, Oden, & Olson, 2009)
- Between Compassion and Accountability: Guidelines for Faith Leaders Responding to People Who Abuse Intimate Partners (Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse and Emerge Counseling and Education to Stop Domestic Violence, 2020)
- African American Men Who Batter: A Community-Centered Approach to Prevention and Intervention (Douglas, Nuriddin, & Perry, Men Stopping Violence, 2008)
- Culturally Specific Treatment for Partner-Abusive Latino Men: A Qualitative Study to Identify and Implement Program Components (Welland & Ribner, 2010)
- [2024 Conference Plenary] The Prism of Intersectionality: Enhancing Abusive Partner Intervention Programming through Addressing Difference
- [2024 Conference Plenary] Beyond Binaries: Moving Towards an Inclusive Framework to Support Those Who Cause Harm
- Cultural Humility Resources
- Abusive Partner Interventions for the LGBTQIA+ Community (Podcast, Center for Court Innovation, 2021)
- What Services Exist for LGBTQ Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence in Batterer Intervention Programs Across North America? A Qualitative Study (Canon, 2019)
- Meeting the Needs of African American Survivors within Battered Women’s Programs (Hampton & Jenkins, 2016)
- Leveraging Privilege: Intersectional Analysis to Motivate and Engage Men in Anti-Violence Work (Hall, 2020)
- Safety and Services: Women of Color Speak About their Communities (Boggess & Groblewski, 2011)
- Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics (Crenshaw, 1989)
- Domestic Violence Fatality Reviews and the African American Community (Bent-Goodley, 2013)
- Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings on Race, Class, Gender, and Culture (Sokoloff, 2005)
- “Sorry, We Have to Take You In:” Black Battered Women Arrested for Intimate Partner Violence (West, 2007)
- Rooted in Culture: Approaches to Abusive Partner Intervention in Native Communities (Center for Court Innovation, 2020)
- Enhancing Faith-Based Responses in Abusive Partner Intervention (Center for Court Innovation, 2020)
- Healing Together: Shifting Approaches to End Intimate Partner Violence (PolicyLink, 2019)
- White Supremacy in the Movement to End Violence Against Women (Giordano, Men Stopping Violence, 2020)
- Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence (Creative Interventions, 2012)
- Future Directions for BIPs: Examining the Power of Male Peer Support and Building Alternative Support Communities (Hart, 2009)
- Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence (Bierria, Kim & Rojas, eds., 2012)
- Breaking the Cycle: A Life Course Framework for Preventing Domestic Violence (Blue Shield of California Foundation, 2019)
- The Men’s Movement of Choice (Carlin, Men Stopping Violence, 1992)
- Evaluating the Oneida Men’s Domestic Violence Program (Padron, 2011)
- Community-Based Services and Interventions for Adults With Disabilities Who Have Experienced Interpersonal Violence: A Review of the Literature (Lund, 2011)
- Promoting Cultural Sensitivity in Supervision: A Manual for Practitioners (Hardy & Bobes, 2017)
- Breaking the Cycle: A Life Course Framework for Preventing Domestic Violence (Blue Shield of California Foundation, 2019)
- Developing Culturally-Relevant Responses to Domestic Abuse: Asha Family Services, Inc. (National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, 2003)